Hair-pin



@itiussrs Megan B. P. TEAL.

' HAIR PIN.

- Patented Jan. 2, 1883.

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UNrTED STATES PATENT herein,

a FRANK TEAL, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

HAIR-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 269,897, dated January 2, 1863.

Application filed September 9, 1878.

V T all whom it may concern ure is a face view of the pin embodying my invention.

My invention is a hair-pin constructed, as fully described hereinafter, so as to support the hair as effectively as an ordinary pin, but not liable, as is thelatter, to slip from itsplace, and capable of ready insertion and withdrawal without wounding the hair.-

The drawing represents one of my improved pins, which consists of one piece or strip of wire doubled to form a loop, a, and two parallel legs, a a, and each of the latter bent to form near the outer end an inward crimp, B, beyond which extends a short straight finger, a. The pin thus formed is used precisely as those made in the usual manner, but has the advantage resulting from the contracting of the width bf the pin by the crimps B B, so

, that it cannot readily slip from the body of hair embraced within the wider part inclosed by the prongs or legs a a.

My improved pin in ust be distinguished from those made with one or both legs criinped throughout the whole or a part of their length, which depend for their effect upon the series of shoulders catching upon the hairs, and not upon locking the main body of the hair between two practically-closed ends, as in this case. In practice the insertion and withdrawal of the pins having such crinips has the etlect of sawing the hair andwounding or cutting the same. It must also be distinguished from those pins with one leg or both legs centrally crimped, which will be retained in place better than an ordinary pin, owing to the shoulders presented by the crimps, but which do not perform properly the ofli'ce of hair-pins, as they do not inclose and support any considerable body of hair, that portion of the pin beyond crimps performing no ot'fice except to facilitate theinsertion of the pin. Moreover, in all pins heretofore constructed with the opposite legs crimped, the orimps have been parallel, so as to leave a space between the parallel sides,

which does not close thepin,butsi|nply makes a tortuous passage or space.

By the construction which I have invented the pin is practically closed at both ends when in place; but as the crimps B B extend toward each other the prongs are merely opened or slightly spread apart as the pin is inserted, without the sawing efi'ect that results from carrying the hair through a tortuous passage between serrated sides.

I claim-' The within-described hair-pin, consisting of a single piece of wire doubled to form a loop,

a, and parallel sides a, and with each sidebent near the outer end to form converging crimps B B and guiding-fingers a a, all as set forth.

B. FRANK TEAL.

' Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERsnEnt, H. G. GARSED. 

